Every Pirate Needs A Good Parrot!

Every Pirate Needs A Good Parrot!

WHAT THE FUCK IS BLOOP?

BLOOP is a potty mouthed, cigar smoking, beer drinking, misogynistic  blob (more specifically he’s a vaginal lubricant experiment gone arry) from the imaginary and fantastic land of Irreverent Valley – Joe is philosopher (translation – bum!) from the ‘real world’ but that doesn’t stop them from being pals, drinking beer, chasing women, playing video games, pondering the meaning of life  and getting into lots of mischief along with a motley cast of pseudo-friends and one arch-nemesis!

SOME INFO ABOUT YOUR HUMBLE NARRATOR!

After doing time as a lawyer, Joseph Morton has returned to his cartoon roots and revived the hit webcomic BLOOP!  BLOOP was conceived sometime around 1982 as a simple doodle on a scrap of paper.  From that humble beginning, BLOOP went on to be published in the student newspapers of Jacksonville High School, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.  BLOOP comic strips have been collected into two books 1987’s A Tome of ‘Toons!  and 2009’s BLOOP: Irreverent Toon Tales!  Joe is from crappy Jacksonville aka Actionville, North Carolina - home of the Marine Corps Base Camp LeJeune (the city Playboy voted as the hardest US city for a guy to get laid in) but now lives in Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada with his way hot smokin’ wife, 8 kids and one grouchy Amazon Parrot named Molly!  Joe has an affinity for money, beer, philosophy, webcomics, RUSH, A ClockWork Orange and chicks with red hair, big boobs and freckles!  Joe also openly told Onslow County, North Carolina District Attorney, George ‘Dick Hole’ Hudson, Jr. to go fuck himself!

NEWS FLASH: Since Joe has moved to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada - he finds that: gambling, drinking and hot strippers / hookers are a constant source of temptation!  Life fucking rocks in Sin City, Baby!  

 

 

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Joe and Andrea Lea

 HOW BLOOP IS CREATED:

People constantly ask (OK, more like ‘occassionally’ ask) how I create BLOOP, so here’s the deal:  Everything starts in my bi-polar noodle!  From some magically mental place, I’ll get a spark of an idea which I jot down in a notebook I carry around.  I usually mull over the idea for a while thinking about ways to improve it.  Then I do a quick layout sketch on plain paper.  In the lay out phase, I’m looking at things like character placement, word balloon placement and the overall feel of that particular strip.  Then I grab a sheet of good ‘ol Strathmore Bristol Board (plain / vellum - whatever).  I then rule out a 3 1/4″ x 10 3/16″ drawing area (smaller than I’d like but I’m too cheap to buy a bigger scanner and scanning half and stitching them together in PhotoShop is just fucking stupid) which is divided into usually 3 or 4 panels.  I then grab my handy 5H Venus or Staedtler pencil and LIGHTLY sketch out the comic (5H is quite hard, so I use care not to indent the surface or I’ll have inking problems later).  I then tighten up the sketch with a 2H.  I then use 0.1, 0.3, 0.7 Staedtler Pigment Liners to ink (god, I love German products – note that German is capitalized and god is not in order to show due respect)!  I DO NOT use Pigma Micron, they suck ass!  When the occasion calls for it, I use a Winsor Red Sable brush and Higgins Black Magic Ink (I know, a lot of people complain about Higgins being too thin but fuck them - it works just fine).  I then rule in the boarders with a Speedball pen and nib.  Lettering is done in an odd fashion but I can’t get it to turn out just right any other way.  I use Blambot fonts, mostly Evil Genuis and Digital Strip (I use to use regular ‘ol Comic Sans but everyone poo-pooed it) which I print out using WordPerfect, hand draw balloons around, cut out with an X-acto knife and lovingly paste onto the panels with a UHU glue stick (another fine German product)!  And yes, I know there are programs for this but they all suck compared to my natural ability!  Then I slap it onto my HP scanner at 600 dpi, load it up into Adobe Photoshop Elements and begin the mundane task of coloring!  I then ’save for the web’ and load it up onto the bloopcomic.com website for all to enjoy!  That’s it!  The process usually takes about 2 to 4 hours.